Highway Patrol to conduct DWI checkpoints

The Missouri State Highway Patrol will be conducting sobriety checkpoints along with alcohol enforcement efforts during April and May in northeast Missouri.

Troop B, based in Macon, will be focusing on alcohol enforcement efforts with DWI saturation operations planned for Marion and Ralls counties in April and in Adair, Marion and Sullivan counties in May with the goal of detecting and removing impaired drivers.

Officers will be participating in the Youth Alcohol Mobilization during May, with a focus on the prom and graduation season this spring.

The Patrol reminded teens it is illegal for someone under 21 to possess or consume alcohol in Missouri.

The state's zero-tolerance policy means the potential for license suspension for any minor drivers found with any alcohol in their system.

The Patrol will also be conducting sobriety checkpoints in Clark County sometime in May.